Places mutyat Wants to Go

An unassuming nature trail winds through dozens of tiny houses built for the wee people.

Possibly the smallest church in the world floats in the middle of a pond.

This giant roadside fruit is home to an array of apple-based treats.

The absurd creation is a compulsory destination for selfies in Buffalo.

A store that specializes in realistic replicas of pop culture weaponry.

Soaring over the Niagara Whirlpool since 1916.

A tunnel that brings more than a century of history to life from the deepest parts of the Niagara Gorge.

The Victorian-era greenhouse is stuffed with tropical plants, and open 365 days a year.

This urban oasis is a marvelous meld of music and landscape architecture.

The remains of a once-famous hotel that also acted as an artist colony.

Nikola Tesla's former home contains an homage hidden from plain sight.

A restaurant on Staten Island showcases a different grandmother’s cooking every night.

Two geologically young and nearly circular volcanic subsidence craters, each about a half-mile in diameter, abruptly break the nearly featureless Snake River Plain.

This set of hot springs also comes with fantastic views.

Fossilized sea bottom and lime quarry.

The first evidence of some of the Earth's earliest life was found in this fossilized undersea grotto.

In upstate New York, gorgeous waterfalls and a watermill are slowly being reclaimed by nature.

Pluto is still considered a planet in Ithaca, New York.

You can take a class, browse the library, or visit the lavish lair of an international men's humor society.

A tiny twin to Seattle's Fremont troll hides from the Florida sun under the Atlantic Boulevard drawbridge.

The bottle house obsession struck a Florida man in his retirement, and now he can't stop building.

Home to a giant switchblade and one of the world's largest collections of pocket knives, this museum is a cut above the rest.

These crumbling foundations are all that remain of the once-stately 1840s manor that gave the town of Bradenton its name.

Visitors flock to see this church tower's unintended feature: It happens to resemble a giant chicken from multiple points of view.